Xshell never prompts for password / login fails

Xshell never prompts for password / login fails

Since the recent update, Xshell does not work with username:password authenticated SSH.

It will ignore any connection string that contains a password and instead cycle through all available public keys from Xagent.

Only once I deactivate Xagent it works.

Program Ver. : Xshell 5

Thursday, December 17, 2015 1:58 AM - Support

Re: Xshell never prompts for password / login fails

If you enable the "Use Xagent (SSH Agent) for handling passphrase" option, Xshell will try to use Xagent even if a user wants to use password authentication. In this case, Xagent services a large number of keys and the connection can fail because of the retry time setting of the server. Many systems allow 5 retries of key authentication by default.